Ok, I did find that I was forcing lower case, so I fixed that, and the missing closing bracket. I also added the credit type flag and reworked my divider handling. I tested a few profiles by relaxing the actor match and pulled the entire cast / crew XML and checked against the downloaded profiles. I think I've got it.

This was cut and pasted from MS Edge, so I guess it changes the codepage. My original is the expected 1252 that Profiler uses.

Still working on the scraping.

Not to be presumptuous, but Gunnar, how does that XML format look to you, should we be so lucky to have you do the advanced stuff? I am thinking you might benefit from a bit more structure, such as <DVD></DVD> elements?

Hot Dog! Figured out the scraping. Now just some brute force coding to put in the page loops and grab the profile IDs. Got a family function to attend over the weekend, but hopefully by early next week I'll have something in beta to mess with. Fun!

I tried to make as much as possible identical to Profiler XML, except the credits info is formatted to make it super easy to parse for you and not force you to redo the work of parsing dividers and episode markers. Any other DVD Info that you want / need, of course I can add that easily to the export.

Scraping did turn out to be relatively easy. Just a bit of a snag getting the page turning logic smoothed out. Once I nail that, I will have a list of UPCs that I can run through the API, which has an "all localities" option, so I don't need to scrape the localities which would be a real pain. At that point I will have the complete list of ProfileIDs from which to request download of the XML for export.

Darn it, seems like some stuff you can't do anymore - at least not easily. Might have to resort to AutoIt to press a few keys. I'm not the only one. Seems others are having the same problem pressing keys inside a modern browser these days. They seem to now require an actual UI action. I'll keep plugging away. I'd like to avoid AutoIt if I can, but I've used it before and it does work well.

Did anyone manage to run this very handy piece of software under Windows 10?

... or is there any other tool to get information out of the CLT tool?

Still working for me!

Hey that's great! Maybe share your setup - which browser, and "compatibility" settings, or anything else you think might be contributing to your success where others have failed? I will probably still continue with my project, but I'm sure some people would love to continue using that program, although apparently the author doesn't want it being used. But that is a decision that each person makes for themselves.

You have to log in to www.dvdprofiler.com in Internet Explorer as an administrator. If you log in via regular IE, it doesn't work. Nor does it work if you log in via dvdprofiler.com (without www), or using any other browser than IE. It's very specific.

Quote:You have to log in to www.dvdprofiler.com in Internet Explorer as an administrator. If you log in via regular IE, it doesn't work. Nor does it work if you log in via dvdprofiler.com (without www), or using any other browser than IE. It's very specific.

I tried to make as much as possible identical to Profiler XML, except the credits info is formatted to make it super easy to parse for you and not force you to redo the work of parsing dividers and episode markers. Any other DVD Info that you want / need, of course I can add that easily to the export.

Any interest still remain on this? I got past a major hurdle today. I might still need an AutoIt bandaid, but all the underlying code seems to be working now. This would be the time to let me know of any tweaks. I will likely only arrange to produce the fastest XML export as I can (it will still be a grind for popular people), and other apps can format in useful ways.

A reminder: this process pulls profile info directly from the online database, and does not depend on what is in your local collection. So if you want anything else to appear in the exported results, I should be able to output it, keeping performance and reasonableness in mind. (should there be an option to override the online with the local credits?)